Oğuz Büyükberber

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Oğuz Büyükberber (* 1970 in Kayseri ) is a Turkish musician ( clarinets , electronics, also alto saxophone , flute , piano , keyboard ) who now lives in the Netherlands , who combines jazz and improvisation with Turkish and contemporary music in his playing .

Live and act

Büyükberber first completed a design degree at Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi in 1994 , where he was honored as the best clarinetist in an internal university competition. As a musician, he first worked with the Yeşil Uzumler Modern Dance Group before founding his own band Kaçan Keçi . In 1997 he first appeared with Ayşe Tütüncü , whose trio he was a long-time member. In 1999 and 2000, the readers of the Turkish jazz magazine Jazz Dergisi voted him the best bass clarinetist.

At the Conservatorium van Amsterdam , Büyükberber studied bass clarinet with Harry Sparnaay and composition with Theo Loevendie (Bachelor 2005, Master 2007). During his career he worked a. a. with Simon Nabatov , Gerry Hemingway , Guus Janssen , Claudio Puntin , Sophie Hassfurther and Wolfgang Reisinger . He also includes the visual arts in his own projects .

Büyükberber presented itself at the Istanbul International Jazz Festival , the Talos Festival , the North Sea Jazz Festival as well as at the Traumzeit Festival . In the field of jazz he was involved in 17 recording sessions between 1995 and 2011.

Discographic notes

  • Oğuz Buyukberber / Sarp Maden / Ateş Tezer / Mahmut Yalay: Lodos (Ada Muzik, 1997)
  • Oğuz Buyukberber / Çağlayan Yıldız: AZ (Ada Muzik, 1997)
  • Velvele (Ada Muzik, 1999)
  • Canlı (Ada Muzik, 2003)
  • Oğuz Büyükberber / Umut Çağlar / Korhan Erel / Florent Merlet: Twentyeight-Twelve-Twothousandeight ( Re: KonstruKt , 2009)
  • Live at Nardis Jazz Club (Focam, 2010)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Akbank Jazz Festival 2006 ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pozitiflive.com
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 26, 2014)
  3. ↑ Büyükberber only presents the first piece (solo)
personal data
SURNAME Büyükberber, Oğuz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish jazz musician (bass clarinet, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Kayseri